Fedora 44 install just works in low resolution mode

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My machine has a GTX 750 GPU. I need to open Fedora in low resolution mode or Anaconda will crash, In this way the system just works in 1024x768 mode.

General Crash Information

  • Process: slitherer (PID 4404)
  • Signal: 11 (SEGV - Segmentation Fault)
  • Executed Command: slitherer http://127.0.0.1/cockpit/@localhost/anaconda-webui/index.html
  • User: liveuser (UID 1000)

Environment and Packages

  • Operating System: Fedora 44 (fc44)
  • Executable Package: slitherer-0~git20251108.d230dba-4.fc44.x86_64
  • Critical Modules Involved: libgallium-26.0.3.so (Mesa 3D), libvulkan_nouveau.so, libQt6WebEngineCore.so.6, and libQt6Quick.so.6.

Root Cause (Main Stack Trace)

The main failure occurred in Thread 4539, which is responsible for rendering the graphical interface. The sequence that led to the error was:

  1. The process attempted to allocate texture memory for the web interface using Qt6 WebEngine and Qt6 Quick.
  2. The call was passed to the Mesa 3D video driver (_mesa_TexStorageMem2DEXT).
  3. The crash happened exactly at the nv50_resource_from_memobj function within the libgallium-26.0.3.so module.

Technical Conclusion

The report shows that the web interface of the new Anaconda installer (running via slitherer) suffered a segmentation fault when interacting with the open-source NVIDIA video driver (Nouveau/Gallium). Hardware acceleration failed while trying to process textures in the graphics card memory.

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You could report this problem in the Fedora bug tracker - Making sure you're not a bot!

You can try using the everything install instead - https://fedoraproject.org/misc/#everything

I suspect that the situation will not improve until the work on fully open source NVIDIA drivers is completed over the next year.

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This has been a common factor with an nvidia gpu and installing fedora for quite some time. The driver for the nvidia gpu that is in the installer is not capable o handling normal resolutions and thus relies on the basic graphics mode from the bios with that gpu.

After the installation completes, on f44, in order to install the nvidia driver for better performance from that gpu you will need to install the legacy driver for it.

You did not state what prior experience you have had with linux and that GTX 750 gpu, but I think (at least for some of the 700 series gpus) it may have been supported by the latest driver from nvidia that has been in use on f43 and earlier (the 580 series). If that is the case you still can get the legacy driver from rpmfusion but it takes a couple steps to do so.
The GTX 750 gpu is not supported by the latest 595 series nvidia driver.

  1. enable the rpmfusion-nonfree repos by following the instructions here.
  2. install the legacy driver with sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-580xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx-cuda
  3. wait a few minutes and reboot.

NOTE: the nvidia driver cannot be loaded and used when secure boot is enabled unless the user has imported the signing key into bios following the instructions in the file /usr/share/doc/akmods/README.secureboot

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All Good. Too easy after downloading the live .iso to USB key and installing over F43 partitions. Dell XPS 9300, dual boot with Win11.